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DPM to push formal claim in August
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Saturday 18: DPM Sir Terepai Maoate is expected to head a delegation to New York in August to address the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. It is then that Sir Terepai will make a formal presentation of the country’s extended continental shelf claim at the United Nations in August. Speaking from New […]
Games organisers wait for coral removal reports
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Wednesday 22: Pacific Mini Games CEO Mac Mokoroa says the proposal to remove coral from Muri lagoon for an oe vaka course is still on hold while environmental reports are being completed. Mokoroa told Radio New Zealand International earlier this month that around eight coral outcrops could be removed and replanted in other parts of […]
Rasmussen condemns gagging of Fiji media
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 16: Foreign affairs and immigration minister Wilkie Rasmussen says he expects Pacific Forum members to respond with one voice on developments in Fiji. “The prime minister is presently overseas, but I am in touch with his office,” says Rasmussen in a media statement. “The chairman of the Forum, the premier of Niue, Toke Talagi, […]
Maire Nui Drive road work three days from completion
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Saturday 18: Secretary of the Infrastructure and Planning ministry, Taukea Raui has responded to some public criticism this week of the delayed completion of road sealing work on Maire Nui Drive. Yesterday he told CI News that to complete the work which began last month, the road works crew needs at least three consecutive days […]
Spraying begins in Puaikura
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Tuesday 21: A public health team has begun spraying Reslin around the vaka Puaikura area this week in an attempt to combat the growing number of dengue cases there. While the ministry of health has not been able to confirm the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease because it is still waiting for lab results, the […]
Shipping situation hots up
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 16: The competition between the two rival shipping companies, Pacific Forum Line and Reef Shipping, is picking up with both releasing schedules for the next few months. Reef’s Southern Tiare voyage 080 is scheduled to leave Auckland on May 4 for Rarotonga but no approval has been granted to the ship as yet. Niue […]
CICC biennial meeting next week
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Friday 17: The Cook Islands Christian Church will hold its biennial meeting, beginning on Sunday. CICC general secretary Nga Mataio says around 200 people from the 60 ekalesia in the Cooks, New Zealand and Australia, will attend the one-week meeting, with the opening service to be hosted by Nikao The re-dedication of the Ziona Tapu […]
Market to open on ANZAC Day
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Tuesday 21: The Punanga Nui market will open this Saturday, despite it being ANZAC Day. ANZAC Day is deemed a public holiday however secretary of internal affairs Tamarii Tutangata says that there is no rule against stores opening on the day. Punanga Nui market manager Elmah McBirney confirmed that the market place will be open […]
Sir Geoffrey new CISNOC head
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 16: Former prime minister Sir Geoffrey Henry said that he agonised over the decision to stand against Tiki Matapo at the Cook Islands Sports & National Olympic Committee annual general meeting on Tuesday night. “Tiki and I are good mates from way back,” said Sir Geoffrey after being voted in as the new president. […]
Audit reports ready to go
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Friday 17: Rumour that parliament may sit again later this month have not been confirmed by government. But clerk of parliament Nga Valoa says it is likely to sit early next month. In the meantime, the audit office has seven reports ready for tabling in parliament. The audit office’s third quarter report January 1 to […]
DPM defends UN trip for continental shelf claim
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in Local
Tuesday 21: Cabinet asked for $12,000 for entertainment and gifts Deputy prime minister Sir Terepai has defended the spending of the reported $30,000 for his delegation to undertake the country’s extension to its continental shelf claim handover in New York. Growing criticism of the meeting at the United Nations headquarters last week includes concern that […]
CICC meeting begins today
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Wednesday 22: The Cook Islands Christian Church biennial general assembly meeting gets underway today at Ngatangiia. Three days are planned for the meeting, with the tabling of reports expected to take up most of today. The CICC’s budget and work programme for the next two years will be tabled tomorrow, when the meeting moves to […]
Millennium bypasses Raro
Wednesday 22 April 2009 | Published in National
Friday 17: The Celebrity Cruises’ Millennium liner with 1997 passengers and 900 crew members is the fifth to cancel its shore visit to Rarotonga this year. The Millennium cancelled the visit due to bad weather conditions says Destination Management Cook Islands. Only three of the eight cruise liners that had planned shore visits to Rarotonga […]
Sunday case proceeds
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Crime
Thursday 9: An application challenging Air Rarotonga flights to Aitutaki on Sundays will be heard in the high court, after a hearing yesterday. Chief Justice David Williams said that he wanted some issues cleared up before deciding whether the case should proceed. The judge expressed disappointment with Paul Lynch (for minister Tangata Vavia) for giving […]
Teenger wanted urgently
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 9: Fifteen-year-old Andrew Teroi (pictured) is wanted urgently by police for a breach of bail conditions. After police bail checks on Wednesday morning, police found that Teroi was not at his parent’s home in Avatiu. Teroi is connected to a string of robberies and last appeared in court on March 26 for contempt of […]
NZ Tepaki Group in liquidation
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in National
Thursday 9: Two New Zealand companies associated with property developer Tim Tepaki were put into liquidation for tax debts last week. Wellington’s Dominion Post reported last Saturday that Tepaki Group Ltd and Tim Holdings Ltd were not represented when Inland Revenue’s case against them were called in the Wellington High Court last week. Liquidation orders […]
Man of 41 convicted for rape
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Crime
Thursday 9: A 41-year-old man was convicted of rape, abduction and indecent assault of a girl under the age of 12. Fakiki Munokoa Araipu of Arorangi appeared before Chief Justice David Williams yesterday on charges relating to a February 19 incident. Araipu had already pleaded guilty to abduction and indecent assault. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty […]
'I was scared for my life'
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Local
Thursday 9: Nayshad Akhatar bears the bruises of being beaten with a lump of wood when he disturbed the burglars. But he counts himself especially lucky that he didn’t get riddled with pallets from the 12-gauge shotgun blast. Nayshad told Cook Islands News yesterday that because the restaurant had been robbed three times before, he […]
PFL's new 'Forum Avarua'
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in National
Thursday 9: Pacific Forum Line has announced that it has secured its new vessel, the Forum Avarua. Forum Avarua is fully container-fitted for over 160 TEU (20 foot containers) of which 18 are reefer slots. She has two cranes each at 35 tonnes and is strengthened for heavy lifts. At this stage the Forum Avarua […]
Man of 71 jailed for raping girl of 12
Wednesday 15 April 2009 | Published in Crime
Thursday 9: A 71-year-old man attempted a number of times to rape a girl who was under 12 years of age. Rima Makea was convicted of three charges of attempted rape and a single charge of indecent assault. He was sentenced by Chief Justice David Williams in the Cook Islands High Court yesterday. The offending […]
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